How did The Lord of the Rings become a secret weapon in Italy’s culture wars? | Jamie Mackay (www.theguardian.com)
October 24th at 10 AM (lemmy.world)
On 10/24 at 10 am each year I have a reminder set to display this image on my devices. It brings a smile to my face. Hopefully it does for y’all as well. 🙂
“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale (bigthink.com)
“Eucatastrophe”: Tolkien on the secret to a good fairy tale...
Lord of the Rings: Gollum Apology Was Written Using ChatGPT by Publisher Nacon, According to Report (gamerant.com)
A new report claims the apology posted for Lord of the Rings: Gollum was written using ChatGPT without the dev team’s consent....
How Moomin creator Tove Jansson found her dark side illustrating Tolkien and Carroll (www.independent.co.uk)
How Moomin creator Tove Jansson found her dark side illustrating Tolkien and Carroll...
Eye of Sauron public art in Toronto (ia800501.us.archive.org)
Made using discarded parking tickets, among other things. More images here: archive.org/details/lawful-evil-hwmb-03-009
Read a rare, unedited translation of Jonah by J.R.R. Tolkien (web.archive.org)
edited for tone and in regard to topic at hand....
History of Middle-earth boxed sets (www.tolkienguide.com)
Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November
J.R.R. Tolkien’s little-known feud with cars (web.archive.org)
Tolkien couldn’t stand cars, and his philosophy of embracing walking and biking might just be the key to a hobbit’s happy and cheerful life....
Is Mordor Based on the Himalayas? (www.atlasobscura.com)
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How Tolkien filled Middle-Earth with a “weird realism” philosophy (bigthink.com)
There is a lot of stuff in Middle-Earth — exquisite gems, magic rings, fabled swords, and ancestral talismans — as well as the more general matter of clothes and armor, megaliths and monuments, food and drink. A supernatural aura suffuses many of these things: stones (standing stones, Seeing Stones, ruins), trees (waking,...
JRR Tolkien interview: ‘It would be easier to film The Odyssey than The Lord of the Rings’ (archive.ph)
JRR Tolkien interview: ‘I never expected a money success’...
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure (lemmy.world)
Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary (theconversation.com)
Stuart Kells...
6 Historic Places That Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (heritagecalling.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2032196...
'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' Release Date Is Now Confirmed (www.themarysue.com)
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How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery' (theconversation.com)
In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”....
How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times - The Big Issue | Nick Groom, 26 Aug 2023 (www.bigissue.com)
Why do we have such an enduring fascination for all things Tolkien half a century after his death? Author Nick Groom believes it’s because his works remains acutely relevant today...
Actually, the Lord of the Rings extended editions aren’t long enough (www.thedigitalfix.com)
Lol! I’m inclined to agree.
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien audiobook review – The Lord of the Rings’ mythical forerunner (www.theguardian.com)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/the-silmarillion-by-jrr-tolkien-audiobook-review-the-lord-of-the-rings-andy-serkis full review...
What is Tom Bombadil? | An Asklemmy discussion
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4172937...
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's Costumes and the Challenge of Reimagining Tolkien's Unseen Second Age (www.denofgeek.com)
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The last known photograph of J.R.R. Tolkien is taken on this day in 1973. (www.syfy.com)
The https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Jrrt_1972_tree.jpg of J.R.R. Tolkien is taken, in front of his favourite tree, the Pinus Nigra (named Laocoon), at the Botanic Garden in Oxford, 9th of August 1973.
The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale review – the greatest show on Middle-earth | (The Guardian) archive.ph (archive.ph)
A formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical...
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Tolkien Forever | (WSJ) Archive.is (archive.is)
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